Some of us at the Postmodern Sideshow checked out the show "Changes" which was an hour and a half long tap dance science fiction opera set to music from David Bowie. It seems that an evil villain had conscripted hot tap dance girls to carry around gigantic pieces of foam rock. There was a rocket ship. Tap dance scientists. And a hot S&M lady. Highly recommended for those who aren't averted by the words dance or tap.
Another pomo moment: Check out Wondershowzen on DVD. It's a parody of a children's TV show complete with Muppets and "brought to you by....". The show is itself post postmodern, but they folded in on themselves with a show called Patience. The first half of the show is extremely boring. It's basically people saying patience really, really slowly. The second half is the first half backwards. Let me repeat that. A show that is on cable TV gets away with the second half being the first half of the show backwards. The end of the show is a quick 2 minute "new show", edited for time. They put little quirks on all the material as you are re-watching it so it isn't as boring as the first time through.
That in itself is genius. The best part is the DVD commentaries where they interview what sounds to be some Jewish Vaudeville style comedian. The guy basically rambles on while you watch the whole boring episode again. I'm sure that I'm not the only guy who has ever watched this commentary, so someone else out there has had their "patience" tried to see the end of the joke.
Our own material this week concerns traveling, which requires lots of patience. Let's hear it for the travel montage.
(Fly me there, tiger)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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First off: Go see A Scanner Darkly. It puts previous Phillip K. Dick adaptations to shame.
Second: The folks here at the Postmodern Sideshow are going to be participating in the Renegade Crap Fair. Last year was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. So. We decided to hunker down and shit out all of the comix from now until then, so that we have time to make arty crap for the fair. The next 10 episodes will follow a sort of continuity. We hope you like it. If it turns out to be a lot of fun, maybe we'll up the comix from one a week to more, but don't hold your breath, because then you'd have to hold your breath until October, and that would be sad. A sad corpse.
Third: Go see A Scanner Darkly
(I want to swallow a balloon)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 16 July 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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Renting is hard. Whether you find your roommate in Craig's list, via a friend, or you shack up with a honey you just met, you never know what you're going to get. Well in this case, what you are going to get is hilarity. With sexy results. Pillhead is splitting Granpa's pad only to face the harsh realities of the real world (or the surreal in this case). He's a resourceful bastard, so we'll just have to see what unfolds.
We went to the Windy City Roller Derby tonight ("Red White and Bruise"). It was hella fun. Excuse me for using the vernacular of my neighborhood (hella). You may find it annoying, in which case we found it a hell of a lot of fun. Either way, it's sexy vixens skating around and kicking ass. Highly recommended if you're in the Chicago Land area.
(link)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 09 July 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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So, it's been relatively difficult to do this week's comix. It turns out that you can get an infection just by LOOKING at a tranny (we were at the pride festival last weekend). So, everyone from the copyboy up to the head of corporate accountability couldn't sit down because our privates were on fire.
It may be God's way of punishing us for being wicked, but it was worth it. Those trannys were HOT!
Once again, I bring forth the character of "grandpa asshole" to quote something I really heard someone say. The only problem is hours after finishing this I heard someone say much much worse, as is often the case with Grandpa Asshole.
What will Pillhead do? Where will he go? Tune in next week.
(I think in esperanto)
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Written by Double Dee
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Monday, 03 July 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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Sorry this one is late, folks. We were out late celebrating at the Chicago Pride Parade and forgot to stop consuming Jameson and Old Style in the parkinglot of a 7-11 with a tranny, a cowboy, two fairies, and a princess. God, I love the Pride Parade.
Read the comic, get offended.
(I choose not to choose)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 25 June 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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Imagine a world that is utterly fantastical: Singing Dinosaurs, Flying Balloons dropping candies of ecstasy, Everyone with some sort of chest-cannon of carebear like power. Now imagine that world destroyed by the misdirected efforts of two well intentioned playwrights / choreographers. That, my dear infernet chillins is what this comic is about.
This is based upon the Biographies of Rogers and Hammerstein. The characters names have been changed to Hammers and Rogerstein (To protect our legal defense fund for something more exciting). The series of comics about them are based 100% on any factual evidence We have about the two...which is none. That's right. We're writing a biographical comic series about a pair of people that we know absolutely nothing about.
Never fear, though. These will be interstitched with the traditional fare of poorly conceived and hastily drawn comix shorts you've come to have stumbled upon.
Enjoy.
(Sing along!)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 18 June 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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This is week 2 of the three-panel format. For every three comix we produce, we get one week off FREE!
In all seriousness, the strip will continue to undergo changes until the Artificial Intelligence Comix AutoGenerator is fully online. Until then we have to feed it circus peanuts and shell scripts.
The gist of the three-panels is that we are all going through our sketchbooks and trying to pull out memorable looking characters that we've only drawn once and then try and give them a plausible scenario. I hope the format works. Summer is too short for doing intensely detailed or well thought out work. Besides, your brain's are probably baked from the sun.
(Flip my switch)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 11 June 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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Ahh, the mind is a terrible thing to waste. Although truth is stranger than fiction, misinterpreting the truth is stranger than truth. The human brain is capable of making sense of trillions of different kinds of visual stimulus. It's only when something different than what you are expecting happens that your brain misinterprets and leaves you stupefied.
This week's comix is one of such incidents. I hope you like Karl's outfit.
(Buy me a pair of Doc's)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 04 June 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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This week's comix is about...well, it's about death and desire. Unfortunately after you kick the bucket, there is nothing left. So you should probably live it up while you can. Which is why I'm going to the beach right now.
(Build me MY robot!)
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 28 May 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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A quick announcement: A lot of information is gone from the website. About the last month of non-comix related posts have disappeared from the site. That has resulted from the white-trash, state-of-the-art circa 1997, homegrown content management system. You see, Loyal readers, the three attributes of programmers are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Lazy means we get tired of doing web pages by hand, impatience means we want it fast, and hubris means we think we can write the code, damnit! There was a bug in our glorious homemade POS code which overwrote our precious posts on Danger Adventure and Baby Teeth (among others). We have contacted the NSA in an effort to dig these articles out of your computer's cache. Don't be alarmed. I'm sure they won't look through your "recipes".
This week's comix is about...well, it's about a transvestite clown. Fast food makes me feel sexy, all the way home. So don't dream it...eat it.
One other thing. The wedge issue in the last presidential election was hands-down Gay Marriage. I never got around to making up bumper magnets that said "Homophobia is the new racism". Well, it didn't take long for racism to be the new racism. All sorts of people are coming out of the wood works to talk about "illegal immigrants" and how they are a drain on our nation. I don't know about you, but the only people who I feel are invading our country are neo-cons. I personally feel that this is backlash from people having to be nice to those of middle eastern descent. The world is full of small minded assholes, and unfortunately, these people show up to the polls in large numbers.
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Written by Double Dee
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Sunday, 21 May 2006 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 March 2007 )
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